Courting the common cold
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What Jamie wrote
I've heard multiple folks considering the continuation of mask wearing to fend off other viruses in general. I like this take from Mo Perry.
Our immune system is designed to interact with the world. We are complex ecosystems of mutually dependent microbes and molecules — superorganisms — embedded in a larger ecosystem of diverse life-forms.
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We need to stay in conversation with the world — the visible, the invisible, the ineffable. We can’t seal ourselves away, kill all the wolves, hide from all the viruses, scrub our guts clean of every bug. Complex life is formed by relationships.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." Same goes for people.